Need help choosing for a laptop

Hello, I know there's like 10000x of this thread, I am sorry but worry not it will sink as soon as I get my answer.
I'm going to college soon so I'm looking for a laptop. I need it for classes and stuff but I'd also like to maybe watch some movie or play some SC2/HoN on it.
I was looking at system76, a laptop builder that uses unbuntu,
Sager (which seems to be the EXACT same thing for all the laptops except Sager uses Windows 7),
Mac (very not sure about this as I'm totally against the apple ripping off so much people) and the google Cr-48

I have never used Ubuntu but I've head that linux is much better than windows 7 so at first I'm going towards system76 as a first choice.
I'm interested in their thin portable 13" laptop, http://www.system76.com/product_info...roducts_id=106 ,
but I've heard that the battery is absolute **** ( 2hours ).
Also, I don't really like the look of that laptop, even if the size and budget fits me.
I would preffer more of a aluminium case laptop (It has to look like I want it, I can't fight it heh) and apple offers that but their laptop are ****.

So could you guys suggest me some good laptop for around 1000$ and 13"-15"
Main use is college but I will also a bit of games and maybe watch some movies.

Anybody has the cr-48 here ? Would it be a good notebook for college ?
Also, how much should I buy it ?

Thank you very much

Edit: One more thing I forgot to ask, is it possible to have, for example, a 500gb HDD in a laptop and installing a SSD with thaty or its either HDD or SSD?

Which is what I gave you. The 540m (np5160) and m11x (335m) are optimus based cards, and will play those games fine, but new games you'll have to play on low-medium. You can probably get away with the cheap fusion laptops.

Hey, so Im can't really choose between the asus laptop, which will be running ubuntu, or a
MBP.
As I said earlier I'm really not a fan of apple, but I really like the MBP.
So am I getting ripped off that bad if I'm buying the MBP ( I know ill get ripoff anyways buying apple products ) and is OSX really worth it ?